Hanen Special Model 14-2 4”

[SouthNarc]

I recently happened into a very nice "Hanen Special" Model 14-2 4" K frame for less than 1k tax, tag, and title. This one came from the second run of them and has the walnut diamond target stocks. The bluing is very nice on this one and it doesn't appear to have been carried or shot a lot at all. Lock up is tight and the action is super smooth. Super happy with this addition to my small collection.

 

[SouthNarc]

Cleaned it up a bit and put on some Grashorn elk stag grips for some glamour shots in better light.

 

[toad67]

Nice model 14. What is a Hanen special?

 

[CHARLIE699]

Welcome to the club! I could never decide,,, should these be called "short" Target Masterpieces or "heavy" Combat Masterpieces. They really are "special" , either way.

 

[murphydog]

Nice model 14. What is a Hanen special?

A Dayton Gun Sports special from the mid-1960s. Mike Priwer is the local expert and may be along shortly.

And with the 4" wide rib, heavy barrel, definitely a K-38 Masterpiece/model 14 variant.

 

[SmithNut]

Mike Priwer is certainly the expert on these, having put together an article for the S&W Collector's journal some years back.

Here's the flyer that Dayton Gun Headquarters put out when these were made.

 

[SmithNut]

.... Target Masterpiece .... snip....

There, fixed it for you....

 

[paplinker]

Did they make any of these with a patridge front sight?

 

[SmithNut]

Did they make any of these with a patridge front sight?

Not aware of any.
They made them in blue and nickel finish.
They had different grips (Targets, Magnas and PC Magnas).
Here's three, originally from Mike Priwer's collection, I had them in my M14/Masterpiece collection for some time before downsizing a dozen or so years back.

All three lettered as shown in the above pic.

 

[oink]

A really nice gun Charlie. I don't deserve a nice one like that. I'd end up shooting the heck out of it.

 

[Baxter6551]

That's a sweet gun. I have a set of Grasshorns on my Model 19.

 

[paplinker]

Not aware of any.
They made them in blue and nickel finish.
They had different grips (Targets, Magnas and PC Magnas).
Here's three, originally from Mike Priwer's collection, I had them in my M14/Masterpiece collection for some time before downsizing a dozen or so years back.

All three lettered as shown in the above pic.

Last year at the SWCA symposium I saw a K32 four inch with a factory patridge front sight. It was in the matte finish so I guess it likely was not a heavy bbl.

I really wanted it and I liked the sight picture but $10 grand was the asking for it.

 

[offrdmania]

Ill Take It! Let me know where to send payment.

I need to find me one of these to go with a set of stocks that I just picked up HAHA

 

[Keith Brown]

I've known of them for years and wanted one for quite awhile. Had a chance at one a couple years ago but it had a red insert front sight which I don't care for. Bought this one a short while ago, solid front sight and it looks like incorrect but very nice grips.

Great bunch of guns in this thread.

 

[Retired W4]

At one time I owned Dayton 14-2, K623995. That one shipped with the RR front sight in Aug,, 1965. In that order there were 180 blue and 4 nickel. Just illustrates how rare the nickel variation is.

Someone at OGCA wanted it more than me.

 

[burneyr]

This is the one Smith that has eluded me for years. Glad some members are finding them in such nice condition.

Hope I will be as lucky one day. Looks great with the stags-

 

[taz666]

These Hanen Specials look like real beasts ... nice.

 

[CH4]

Hmm isn't know they made a 4" 14.
Very nice

 

[murphydog]

Hmm isn't know they made a 4" 14.
Very nice

The factory also made intermittent test (marketing) runs of similar guns, as I recall one back in the late 1950s and another in the early 1970s, for law enforcement contracts that never materialized.

 

[Keith Brown]

The Hanen Special is not a four inch Heavy barrel K-38 or model 14. It is a unique hybrid pairing the heavy barrel from a model ten with the Baughman ramp front sight commonly of a model 15. Attached is a pic of my Hanen next to a mid 50s Heavy Masterpiece, the difference is pretty apparent from that view.